Safi Faye
Senegalese ethnologist and film director (1943–2023)
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Safi Faye was a Senegalese film director and ethnologist. She was the first African woman to direct a commercially distributed feature film, Kaddu Beykat, which was released in 1975. She has directed several documentary and fiction films focusing on rural life in Senegal.
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